毒是我这个小人下的
“A villain like me administered the poison.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
毒 是我 这个 小人 下的
“A villain like me administered the poison.”
你若是能帮他解毒 就是他再生父母 你说是不是？
“You're practically his savior if you can help him detoxify. Don't you agree?”
“You do not need to worry about dirtying your hands; I will take all the moral blame.”
In Chinese moral philosophy, 'Xiaoren' denotes a petty, unprincipled person; self-identifying as one here is a manipulative tactic showing that the speaker has no moral pretensions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a scoundrel/villain like me
Used here with biting self-deprecation to embrace an immoral reputation pragmatically so the counterpart feels safe.
Functions as part of the 'shi...de' cleft construction to emphasize that the agent of poisoning was the speaker.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Did you poison her?”
“This poison in me cannot be cured.”
“Then I'll really poison it next time.”
“On what grounds do you think it was me who poisoned her?”
“You hated me badly”
“Planting insects inside someone?”